单词 | snuff |
释义 | snuff (once / 954 pages) vnadj WORD FAMILY snuff: snuffed, snuffer, snuffing, snuffingly, snuffs+/snuffer: snuffers USAGE EXAMPLESAnother reason to be wary of brighter bulbs: Our testing found that their light quality isn’t always up to snuff at this point. Wall Street Journal(Dec 15, 2016) I’m referring to his recent “60 Minutes” interview, the apotheosis of all of his tongue biting and conscience snuffing to date. Seattle Times(Dec 08, 2016) This biography examines her divided soul and is an elegy for a talent snuffed out too soon. Seattle Times(Dec 01, 2016) 1v inhale audibly through the nose snuff coke Hyper breathe in, inhale, inspire draw in (air) 2v sniff or smell inquiringly Syn|Hyper snuffle smell inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense 3n sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose Syn|Hyper sniff smell, smelling the act of perceiving the odor of something 4n finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose Hypo|Hyper rappee strong snuff made from dark coarse tobacco baccy, tobacco leaves of the tobacco plant dried and prepared for smoking or ingestion 5n a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time Hyper hint, jot, mite, pinch, soupcon, speck, tinge, touch a slight but appreciable amount 6n the charred portion of a candlewick Hyper char a charred substance 7adj snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown Syn chukker-brown, mummy-brown, snuff-brown chromatic being or having or characterized by hue |
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